I have very strong opinions about all the above, which can be summed up thus: You could have chosen kittens, Stephen Sovie! 🙀🙀🙀
So please allow me to respond in picture format through one of my cats, the formidable Trudeau, pictured below in 2016 during his first vet visit.
Trudeau’s body language conveys his long-haired human’s feelings about Medium.

There, fixed it. 💪